Precaution, preemption: Arts and technologies of the actionable future

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 859-878

  de Goede, Marieke ^a   Randalls, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; CLIMATE CHANGE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICS; TERRORISM;

EID: 70449591490     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: 14723433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d2608     Document Type: Article

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